II . Ответьте на следующие вопросы.
1. Why doesn't the narrator know her Great Aunt very well?
2. What kind of job did Mary get after graduating from the university?
3. Why did Mary never marry?
4. What always impressed the narrator in her Great Aunt?
III . Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержанием текста.
1. Women magazines began to be popular in Britain in the 1930s.
2. Mary is now old in years and has lost interest in life.
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Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.
The setting is every child's dream. A huge, rambling, 300-year-old house, warmed by log fires, overrun by pets, and set in acres of natural playground. And no school.
That is what makes the Kirkbride household so rare. James, 18, Tamara, 15, Tigger, 14, and Hoppy, 10, have spent the last four years doing what other children only enjoy at weekends and holidays.
They get up when they feel like it, breakfast at leisure, and spend the rest of the day doing what they want. They walk, swim, fish, paint, read, play musical instruments, cook or sit around and chat.
There has been no attempt at having any lessons since John and Melinda Kirkbride took their children out of the local school — James five years ago and the others a year later. Hoppy had been there only six days. «We did start with a sort of curriculum when we took James out», says John, 46, a large forceful man. «But we soon realised we were repeating the mistakes of the system.»
«From the beginning, we both felt that packing our children off to school was wrong», says Melinda, a German-bom former actress. «Seeing their unhappiness made us re-examine our own school years, and remember how destructive they were.» John, formerly a TV producer, began a teachers' training course in Norwich, «to see if I could reform from within.» He soon found he couldn't and, after completing the course and teaching for four months, he removed himself and his children, from the system.
If the personalities of the children were the only criteria, the experiment would be an undoubted success. They are intelligent, confident, capable and considerate. All, including the two boys, cook and sew. Chores are shared without arguments. Their friendliness to each other, and to the many guests who visit the house, is natural and unforced.
«Teach is a swear word in this house,» says John. «It destroys the
child's own natural talent and creativity. Now learning—that's a different
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matter. All our children learn when and if they want to learn something.
They look it up in books or they go and ask someone who knows, they
. use their initiative — which is more than any school could teach them.»
Test № 9
I . Определите, верны ( True ) или неверны ( False ) следую щие утверждения. '
1. The Kirkbride household is typical of the east coast of Britain.
2. None of Melinda and John's children have ever attended school.
3. John and his wife do not accept the traditional school system.
4. The parents don't make any of their children learn anything.
II . Ответьте на следующие вопросы.
1. How many children do the Kirkbrides have?
2. What kind of house do the Kirkbrides live in?
3. What is the Kirkbrides children's daily routine?
4. What are the children's personalities like?
III . Исправьте предложения в соответствии с содержани-
Ем текста .
1. Melinda was born in Norwich.
2. John was formerly an actor.
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Прочитайте текст два раза и выполните следующие задания.
The problems with my parents started when I was sixteen. I wanted to get a Saturday job but my parents ordered me to stay at home and study for my exams. Whenever I pointed out that all my friends had Saturday jobs, they always replied, «We don't care what they do, it's you we are worried about,» and yet, whenever my school marks were bad, I was always compared to everyone else. Their double standards infuriated me so much that I did whatever I could to provoke them. I purposely dyed my hair white blond and plastered my face in make-up before I went to school. However, all I managed to achieve was mass arguments before I went anywhere.
It was rule in the house that I was only allowed out once during the week and on Saturday till 10 p.m. Every time I attempted to go out in the evening, my parents asked me who I was going out with and where we were going. They even insisted on my giving them my friend's telephone number in case they needed to contact me. I always argued about the last bit; I felt that if I gave them the number they'd use it to check up on me. It never for one moment crossed my mind that they were just worried about me.
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Once I asked if I could go to a party on Saturday night. The party finished at 11.30 p.m. They agreed, but on the condition that my Dad came to pick me up at 10 p.m. I argued and argued about it but in the end I had to agree. I knew I was going to be really embarrassed when my father came to pick me up, so I spent the whole party worrying. I didn't speak to my parents for three days after that. My mother tried to explain how they both felt but I didn't want to listen. It was then that I decided to break all the rales they had set down. So instead of coming home at 10 p.m., I would arrive back at 11.30 p.m. and then refuse to tell them where I had been. I somehow felt that if I broke their rules, they would realise I was old enough to look after myself and leave me alone. However, the argument got worse and worse, and the more they tried to keep me in the house, the more I sneaked out. Finally, one Saturday night I didn't come home till 2 a.m. My father wanted to know why I was so late. I refused to tell him. We had a huge argument which ended with me getting a taxi to my sister's house. What went wrong?
Test № 10
I . Определите, верны ( True ) или неверны ( False ) следующие утверждения.
1. Ann's parents didn't want her to work on Saturdays.
2. Ann's schoolmarks were sometimes bad.
3. Ann didn't believe her parents were just worried about her.
4. Ann left her parents' house.
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